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“The first thing that was very hard is letting go of the people that you sold a dream to,” Aggarwal said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
After weeks in captivity, she discovered she was pregnant and became very sick.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2026
There will also be an increased potential for indoor environments to become very warm, and water related incidents may increase, including risks from cold water shock and drowning.
From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026
“It is very unfortunate that an entire industry, which generates millions of dollars in revenue for Mexico, has to be shut down,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
The beautiful hunter didn't let him remain on his knees, for he was the squire of a very famous knight, she said.
From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios
Is there a verier child than I am now?
From Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel by Donne, John
Ne'er did I see verier light in earth or sky, than flashed into her face as their eyes met.
From A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales by Rives, Amélie
Yet, on my conscience, there are verier knaves desire to live, for all he be a Roman; and there be some of them too that die against their wills.
From Cymbeline by Shakespeare, William
How dare we, that may gaze not on the sun, Gaze on this verier one?
From Studies in Song, A Century of Roundels, Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets, The Heptalogia, Etc From Swinburne's Poems Volume V. by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
The result is that after meeting Bach, even the veriest cynic is likely to find himself shamelessly rooting for Jonathan Livingston Seagull and curiously willing to forgive the book its literary trespasses.
From Time Magazine Archive
After a blotchy red rash appears, the veriest tyro knows it.
From Time Magazine Archive
She could mix a cocktail as well as the veriest flapper of today.
From Time Magazine Archive
The veriest dauber knows about dynamic symmetry which is, in a sense, geometry in art.
From Time Magazine Archive
By some, indeed, it was alleged that the veriest dunces, if of loyal stock, might look to escape on these occasions; but I treat this as a calumny.
From Shrewsbury A Romance by Weyman, Stanley J.
